Immigration & Amnesty Wrap-Up
So for the time being the Immigration Bill is dead, as a stake has been driven through its heart. Both parties and the president was giving lip service to the fact that enforcement is tantamount (at the same time as promoting amnesty). I think you won’t get any opposition to securing the border. Michael Chertoff is saying that he doesn’t have the tools to effectively enforce our immigration laws. We know very well he despises enforcing the laws but did reluctantly promise that the fence building will continue and the raids will continue. Let us hold him to that.
We hope during the appropriations process that begins in a few months, let us get the 4 billion dollars in additional funding to secure the border. Let us give money to the State Dept to ensure that passport processing gets shored up and see that US-VISIT is finally completed. This it the country that invented the microprocessor, nuclear bomb, the Internet and the modern automobile. To say we cannot secure the borders or enforce the law on the books is a joke. If the government really focused on this issue, we can virtually stop all further illegal intrusions into our borders.
I also strongly think that it is a myth that hispanics and minorities favor amnesty for those here already. These are the same people who are getting squeezed the most from cheap labor. Sure they have family members here they would like to see legalized but to assume they all favor amnesty and open borders is obscene, and that illusion itself is racist. I am sick and tired of hearing the shouting from government officials and activists that wanting our borders secure and our interior enforced is racist and xenophobic. This is a national security issue and for a nation not to be able to secure its sovereign borders means that there is no nation. Does that mean that I am a nativist? Yeah maybe, if the fact that I want to live in a sovereign United States of America that has secure borders, speaks English, and isn’t overpopulated makes me one. I have absolutely nothing against immigration. But it must be orderly, ensure that it doesn’t hurt American workers, ensure that we know that we are not letting in criminals & terrorists, ensure it doesn’t have an adverse effect on our infrastructure and fiscal policy and be LEGAL.
I think the UK suicide bombing scare should hit home. We have to be able to secure the country, whether its our northern or southern borders, our airports, sea ports and coastline. We must continue to pressure politicians to let them know that this will be a decisive issue in the 2008 elections. Nobody is going to get a freeride and we got to make it clear that open borders is not an option.
